On SAT:

Our education is a relic left to us from our colonial times. It seemed that in recent years, it is not enough for our aspiring students to take the GCE "A" levels as the entrance examinations to our local university. They are now required to take the SAT as well. To make our students more marketable, to show that the local students admit to our own university are of a world class standard, products from our British inspired schools are now made to pass the American test.

Interestingly:


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From the New York Times dated: March 23, 2002

College Board to Revise SAT
By TAMAR LEWIN

"The College Board has been re-thinking the SAT I for some years, as more colleges, including Bates, Bowdoin and Mount Holyoke, have dropped it from their requirements."

While the SAT claims to be "a curriculum-free aptitude test", University of California "and other critics, have expressed concern that the SAT I favors students from middle- and upper-income families — and that both grade-point average and SAT II subject test scores are better predictors of which students are likely to succeed in college."

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Perhaps this is an example that even academic tests are not socially neutral.